Global Procurement Category Specialist - Customer Marketing

Global Procurement Category Specialist - Customer Marketing

Contract: Permanent

Location: London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin (Hybrid, typically 2 to 3 days a week in the office to support collaboration, connection and teamwork)

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

About the Function

Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We're dedicated to maximising the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while creating sustainable value and growth. Together, we're shaping the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.

• Contribute to Diageo's $625m cost savings target by delivering productivity improvements and establishing a pipeline of value for future years across Customer A&P.
• Support Diageo's $3b free cash flow target by identifying cash opportunities across Customer A&P and developing a robust delivery pipeline.
• Optimise Diageo's Customer A&P (55/35/10) to maximise growth and performance, reducing inefficient and ineffective spend, leveraging investment insights, data, and strategy across the ‘35' and shopper ‘10'.
• Collaborate with Global Customer Marketing Procurement and Marketing Effectiveness teams to deliver a ‘One Customer' effectiveness strategy, enhancing data and insights globally and across markets.
• Strengthen strategic partnerships and business value between Global Commercial and Procurement functions by actively driving core workstreams.
• Apply strategic procurement excellence through creation or support of category strategies, using Diageo's best methods, standards, and tools to deliver procurement value.
• Lead or support global sourcing activities, ensuring agency commercial terms, capabilities, and contracts align with Diageo's performance ambitions.
• Develop subject-matter expertise in specific spend categories, leveraging external market/industry knowledge to inform strategy development and sourcing.
• Adhere to and promote the highest standards of compliance, including risk management, contract management, and cost modelling/benchmarking.
• Work dynamically across categories, proactively identifying opportunities for flexible resourcing.
• Actively participate in the global procurement community, including attending and leading meetings, supporting strategy alignment, developing capabilities, and sharing best practices.
• Collaborate with Finance, Data & Analytics to enhance spend analytics, A&P investment insights, and cross-category collaboration in line with investment optimisation strategy, including enhancing core systems such as Nucleus and adoption of DSC strategy.

• Significant experience in Procurement, Commercial, Finance, Marketing, or related roles.
• Membership of CIPS or another professional procurement organisation preferred.
• Skilled at building and maintaining strong partnerships externally with agencies and suppliers, and internally with business, commercial, and marketing teams.
• Experience delivering projects and working in cross-market teams, including developing and delivering category and procurement strategies and managing supplier relationships.
• Strong analytical, financial, and commercial awareness, with clear understanding of business requirements, financial goals, and value drivers relevant to the categories.
• Ability to generate insights that influence decision-making, with a strong commercial perspective.
• Technically literate, with experience using systems effectively.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate and communicate across markets and time zones.
• Comfortable challenging established practices, using insights, benchmarks, and external market knowledge to stimulate alternative thinking and influence decisions.